 EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. Crafty men contemn studies simple men admire them and wise men use them. 2. Speak as you mean do as you profess perform what you promise. 3. Caesar was dead the senators were dispersed all Rome was in confusion. 4.  First Lessons in Composition - Page 113by John Seely Hart - 1871 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1859 - 942 pages
...themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bon mind in by experience. 6. Crafty men contemn studies ¡simple men admire them: and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use ; but that IB a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.... | |
 | Peter Buillons - English language - 1859 - 262 pages
...992. RULE 3.—In compound sentences, the clauses or members are usually sepft rated by commas; as, " Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." But when the clauses are short, or closely connected, the comma is not used, as, " Revelation tells... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...BOOK THE FOURTH. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND EGBERTS. 1859. MISCELLANEOUS. READING. CKAFTY men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. Read not to contradict or confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 322 pages
...have sat in his Inner school. The following passage from the Essays* is in Bacon's early style : " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 554 pages
...Letter of his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus: “Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use: that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they he hounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 964 pages
...Letter of his old age. We will give very short specimens, of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus: "Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use: that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 950 pages
...of his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus: " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use: that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, i-xcept they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.... | |
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